Diffbot, a Silicon Valley company, has introduced a new AI model that combines AI capabilities with real-time fact verification. As reported by Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat, the system uses graph retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) technology based on Meta’s Llama 3.3. The model connects to Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph, a database containing over one trillion facts that updates …
Microsoft has made its Phi-4 AI model freely available as open-source software on the Hugging Face platform. As reported by Carl Franzen, the model was previously only accessible through Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform. The 14-billion-parameter AI model has demonstrated strong capabilities in mathematical reasoning and language understanding tasks, outperforming larger models in specific benchmarks. …
A detailed analysis published by Sunil Kumar Dash reveals that DeepSeek’s latest AI model achieves performance comparable to leading closed-source models while offering significant cost advantages. The model outperforms existing open-source alternatives in mathematics and reasoning tasks, according to extensive benchmark testing. The analysis demonstrates that DeepSeek-V3 surpasses GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in mathematical …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-V3, a powerful new AI model that outperforms existing open-source alternatives. According to reporting by Shubham Sharma at VentureBeat, the model features 671 billion parameters but activates only 37 billion for each task through its mixture-of-experts architecture. The model was trained on 14.8 trillion diverse tokens and demonstrates superior …
IBM has released a new version of its open-source large language models, Granite 3.1, featuring significant improvements in performance and capabilities. According to reporting by Sean Michael Kerner for VentureBeat, the new models offer extended context length and integrated hallucination detection. The Granite 8B Instruct model reportedly outperforms similar-sized competitors including Meta Llama 3.1 and …
Microsoft has introduced a new AI model that delivers superior mathematical reasoning capabilities while using significantly less computing power than larger competitors. According to Michael Nuñez’s report in VentureBeat, the 14-billion-parameter Phi-4 model outperforms larger systems like Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5. The model excels particularly in mathematical problem-solving, achieving top scores on standardized math competition …
The University of Surrey’s Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence (PAI) has unveiled NitroFusion, a revolutionary AI model that generates images in real-time as users type. The groundbreaking technology, developed by the university’s SketchX laboratory, operates on consumer-grade graphics cards, making it accessible to individual creators and small studios. Unlike existing image generation platforms that require …
ServiceNow has launched Fast-LLM, an open-source framework that speeds up artificial intelligence model training by 20%. As reported by Sean Michael Kerner for VentureBeat, the technology has already proven successful in training ServiceNow’s StarCoder 2 language model. Fast-LLM introduces two key innovations: “Breadth-First Pipeline Parallelism” for optimized computation ordering and improved memory management that reduces …
Meta has released Llama 3.3 70B, a new large language model that achieves GPT-4 level performance while running on high-end consumer laptops. The breakthrough was documented by developer Simon Willison testing the model on a 64 GB MacBook Pro M2, demonstrating capabilities comparable to much larger models like Meta’s own Llama 3.1 405B. The model …
Hugging Face has introduced SmolVLM, a new vision-language AI model that processes both images and text while using significantly less computing power than comparable solutions. As reported by Michael Nuñez, the model requires only 5.02 GB of GPU RAM, compared to competitors that need up to 13.70 GB. The system uses advanced compression technology to …